Japanese... A dying langauge?

[Yon]

i don't want that the japanese language going to dissapear...because, every country must have own unique language...it makes still a part of culture, history and art...we did get it from our ancestors...even though i am a dutch turk guy and not good in japanese don't want japanese language dissapear...it is just a waste...well it is maybe handy, when you can communicate with different country, when marrying a man/wife of another country....the crimes maybe decrease, but it should keep still intact....that's my opinion...

[Ito]

lol japanise language about to die? i dont think so, more people want to learn it.
maybe japansie people get more from western culture but i dont think they will stop speaking japanise. i have also heard that norden language can die becouse is more less people who speak it. but i dont think it will die. in sweden we do have to speak swedish. if u dont pass swedish, english, math u will not get into highschool and swedish,english and math is also needed to go to college.
and swedish language have also picked up words from finish,english,germany..
like idiot is idiot in swedish but sounds diffrently.
hugs ito

[spawn142001]

I dont see what people have against english and really theres no point for me to argue against what ever reasons you have but english is only the dominate international language because it is the buisness language because the people with the most money, the people making all the big deals speak english. People want to be part of this flow of money and to understand how this buisness works they must know the buisness language which is english. As soon as what ever shit thats coming towards the U.S. happens and we have no more money or a thriving media/entertainment economy then the language spoken by who ever has the most money will most likely become the new buisness language and from my perspective will most likely become the japaneese because they are so smart and well educated which is why the value of there currency continues to rise and the u.s.'s continues to fall and then soon countries will become easternized instead of westernized and this process should in theory continue for many milliniums to come.


I probaly could have explained some of that better but this is just what i think so if its not correct then some one please correct me without starting a flame war.

[vulgarshudder]

omg this is gonna be lolz.

[zeezee88]

the language spoken by who ever has the most money will most likely become the new buisness language and from my perspective will most likely become the japaneese because they are so smart and well educated

I'm not to sure about this. The Japanese have created a lot of new technologies over time, but I don't think they are to become the next prevelant economy. In fact most believe that this is the reality for China. Due to the number of people, Mandarin Chinese is apparently the most widely spoken language on the planet: with English coming in 2nd and then Spanish. China is currently investing in Africa. Mandarin Chinese is taught in some schools in Zimbabwe (alongside English) and according to the BBC News there has been a 27% increase in pupils sitting the Chinese GCSE in England. With interest in language comes an interest in culture.

soon countries will become easternized instead of westernized

So while I think it's fair to say that the above statement is true (to an extent)...I don't think it will be because of Japanese influences.

In relation to the main topic, I don't think Japanese language and culture is dying. I just think it's reforming. For some reason, whenever people think of modernisation, they think of Westernisation. This is a silly mentality that people on a global scale seem to have developed, since many modern day technologies and trends were pioneered in the east. Yes, to a degree Japan has adapted to western standards, but I trully believe that all they have done is modernised.

[Nyororin]

Originally Posted by Tenchu

You silly person,[cut]
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Wow. How much time did you waste typing that out.

I take it you`ve never taken an anthropology course. Humans aim for a comfortable life for themselves or their children. People don`t go out to wars because it is comfortable - they do so to possibly preserve a comfortable future for themselves, their children, etc. Your inability to connect those ideas together isn`t going to get you any bragging points. People aren`t going to struggle for nothing - there has to be some sort of reward, even if it`s as simple as being removed from struggle.

I`m sorry that you don`t agree, but unless you can counter with something other than "spew"ed insults, it means nothing to me. *yawn*

Oh, and by the way, I`m female... And spent way too much time studying linguistics. You know, that subject that covers the development and progress of language.

[Nyororin]

Originally Posted by zeezee88

In relation to the main topic, I don't think Japanese language and culture is dying. I just think it's reforming. For some reason, whenever people think of modernisation, they think of Westernisation. This is a silly mentality that people on a global scale seem to have developed, since many modern day technologies and trends were pioneered in the east. Yes, to a degree Japan has adapted to western standards, but I trully believe that all they have done is modernised.

I think you`ve hit it on the head perfectly.

[JuSan]

Well the other thing I see is look at the US. If you look around here you'll see plenty of people adapting to other cultures. You have those like us who enjoy Japan and asia and adapt it's philosiphies and culture to our own, you have caucasians dressing in a way that is stereotypicly african american. So I think if the world is westernizing then the west is easternizing. Like I said before I think the world is just finding a happy medium. We're starting to adapt ourself in each others ways and I kinda like it. People will either hold to their traditions or they won't, and there will always be those who will. I think it would be more like to be like Blade Runner, were English as a whole will take in from everywhere, I mean that was kinda how it was created in the first place.

[spawn142001]

Well when the japaneese make a breakthrough in some technology they could monopolize it and become the strongest in terms of economy. Billgates did it, he is selling copies of windows vista for four hundred dollars which is insane for a cd that you put in your computer, but people need operating systems to do stuff like browse the internet none of that is built into the pc hardware, and now billgates is one of the richest men on the planet if not the richest. If the japaneese have such a breakthrough with a technology or a series of technologys that would make something such as colonizing the moon or mars and creating a stable atmosphere for life say 1/100th the cost of what it would be today for example then wouldent people want to take advantage of that people would come up with ways to mine mars and the moon and consume every natrual resource on those planets as cheaply as possible to sell it on earth and become rich they would pay japan great amounts of money to get a hold of this technology, and back to why i predict that japan will become the next big country in terms of economy such as america or what america once was. I predict this because the japaneese are the ones who are going to be smart enough to come up with such a breakthrough that they could monopolize it and people would want it.

[JuSan]

Yeah they're already on the start by taking technology that already exists and improving on it to make it better, the next step after that would be creating the new technology.